Reposted by Dean MaddenMegan Herbert @meganjherbert.bsky.social · 16hBrilliant work by @mackinnonart.bsky.social 4528224
Reposted by Dean MaddenJarrod Watt @jaywatt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026One technology, two terms according to whether you’re on the white team. ‘Smart glasses’ if you’re on team Zuckerberg, ‘pervert glasses’ if you’re team China. Was this headline assisted by ABC’s embrace of Anthropic in news production, or was it a human decision? 044
Reposted by Dean MaddenAnna Hughes 🍁 @annaghughes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026trying to make new friends as an adult 108115432043
Reposted by Dean Maddengoogamp32.bsky.social @googamp32.bsky.social · 10/09/2026"Deciding on a premise"? You already HAVE a premise! It's the same premise The Muppets have had since 1974! "Watch the funny sock people do silly stuff on stage, and also one, sometimes two or three, famous humans do entertaining." BOOM! You've got Disney+ content! What part of that is confusing? 10103851
Reposted by Dean MaddenKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/09/2026Who would like to guess why UK, US and European media outlets are not publishing 3,000 articles per minute about this www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...dukechronicle.com‘Insane data’: Duke professor Dan Ariely accused of additional research fraudNew evidence released Monday shows that Dan Ariely, professor of business administration in the Fuqua School of Business, likely tampered with or fabricated data in an influential research paper from ... 502488753
Reposted by Dean MaddenDollaryyDoos @dollaryydoos.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I hope he's in the ONE place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism (or the other evils on this planet). #RIPTimCurry 2144
Reposted by Dean MaddenBrooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 24/08/2026OK everybody remember, this "debate me on racism" thing has been tried before and people actually did debate the racists and all it ended up doing was elevating racist messaging. Also, that message was sown on Twitter to be bait for journalists in 2016 so maybe don't fall for it this time around 🥰 462542588
Reposted by Dean Maddenshaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 23/08/2026basically the whole war on science crew signed the cofnas support letter. always the same group of bigoted pricks 212012276
Reposted by Dean MaddenAda Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026In the Renaissance people theorized, since the Aeneid is great, if you wrote poems made only of words & phrases from the Aeneid rearranged they should be great too, since a great source regurgitated should yield greatness. They produced NOTHING we still read. Thinking about that a lot lately. 542971825
Reposted by Dean MaddenSenator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 18/08/2026🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: ASIO no. 2 is being rushed through parliament this week. This is the bill that allows warrantless questioning by ASIO, without a lawyer, and you can't tell a soul without being sent to prison. Share this widely and make some noise. 41457339
Reposted by Dean MaddenKatherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 15/08/2026Part of the reason they went after Arday so hard was because he was Black at *Cambridge*, one of the two crown jewel universities of the British establishment. Destroying him was a ritual they performed for the sake of aristocratic in-group solidarity. 337557
Reposted by Dean Maddenkat @kgt.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Ascribing “autonomy” to a large language model is bad journalism. 0104
Reposted by Dean MaddenKatherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 04/08/2026These bans are ineffective for their stated purpose, but they *do* empower states to create ugly architectures of surveillance and control. This will not solve the problems that lead social media to be a festering malignancy on democracy, it just erodes our freedoms for no discernible gain. 04614
Reposted by Dean MaddenGreg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Bloke who infamously had no issue with Musk doing a Nazi salute has thoughts and ABC decides they’re worth repeating? 39354122
Reposted by Dean MaddenReturn of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Michael Caine voice: “some men just can’t handle any Christopher Nolan criticism” 1605
Reposted by Dean MaddenEMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukEmily Wilson · An Uncomplicated ManAs they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my... 19761571557
Reposted by Dean MaddenCasey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 27/07/2026People who think Emily Wilson is being mean have clearly never presented a paper at an academic conference 713675481
Reposted by Dean MaddenElise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Feels like the big lesson is that hosting US military bases doesn’t make you safer, it makes you a target www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...abc.net.auIran's attacks on US bases in the Middle East mark 'end of an era'Five months into a war Donald Trump said would last only weeks, the Iran conflict has so far cost the United States tens of billions of dollars and brought about "the end of an era" in American milita... 072
Reposted by Dean MaddenEize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 23/07/2026…why does this hotel’s complimentary lumbar support pillow look like a sex toy made by a board game company? 791574259
Reposted by Dean MaddenRav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 22/07/2026Quick thinking having a tablecloth handy. I didn’t even notice the twitching from that dead robot. 47659451205
Dean Madden @deanmadden.bsky.social · 22/07/2026And we can all watch it in Martian habitat he's totally going to build 000
Reposted by Dean MaddenDamon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 21/07/2026Every now and then, it’s worth saying what ought to be obvious: trans people have always existed, and will exist as long as humans do. They’ve not done anything wrong by wanting their existence recognised, supported, and celebrated. The transformation of their existence into “an issue” is evil. 151102319
Reposted by Dean MaddenMegan Herbert @meganjherbert.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Discarded. My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social 13344154
Reposted by Dean MaddenThe Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Stolen goods. My @smh @theage cartoon. 7393169
Reposted by Dean MaddenJosh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 15/07/2026I was recently told that my latest short humor piece for @mcsweeneys.net was their #1 most read article for all of last month (after being #2 in May)! That's so exciting to me!mcsweeneys.netAt Long Last, I Have Maxximized My Looks“At long last, I am a stone-cold seven, the kind of guy who could win a Jacob Elordi lookalike contest in a farm town with a population of 200.” 2031930
Reposted by Dean MaddenWalter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Thinking how at the end of the Star Wars trilogy an entire galaxy celebrates the death of the emperor without a finger wagging coda where a sad-eyed long haired scold in bespoke clothing warns that this reduces everyone to the same level as the genocidal tyrant who got tossed into a laser shaft. 62506654
Reposted by Dean MaddenLiz Crash @lizcrash.bsky.social · 12/07/2026eureka flag redesign goes hard 1141
Reposted by Dean MaddenKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 08/07/2026At this point, I imagine working at meta to be one long meeting about what exactly they can do for the sex pest community 21592149
Reposted by Dean MaddenJosh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 07/07/2026if i were participating in a world soccer tournament i would simply not have accepted a tainted gift from the trickster king of the fae realm 11085185
Reposted by Dean Maddengamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 07/07/2026He never cared about the people. He saw an opportunity to be treated like a hero after failing to win respect in any other part of his life, and he took it. He’s a naked opportunist who in six months will be on Rogan talking about the left eating itself. In a year he’ll run as a republican. 1424347
Reposted by Dean Maddenspooky grace @acab4cutie.top · 06/07/2026actual pro tip from a girl who has been to more shows than i could ever count: if you ever need to get out of a crowd quickly, push your body in the direction you need to go while you put your hand over your mouth and dramatically, visibly heave. people will get out of your way IMMEDIATELY. 6465101
Dean Madden @deanmadden.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Just propaganda put out by big geography trying to sell more atlases 120
Reposted by Dean MaddenActinotus forsythii @actinotusforsythii.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Guess who: Expert level 651
Reposted by Dean MaddenOverly Sarcastic Productions @overlysarcastic.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Willy Wonka 🤝 V for Vendetta "emotionally torturing that vulnerable person until I deem them worthy to be my equal and successor" -R 952873
Reposted by Dean MaddenFaisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 20/06/2026It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities. 45170396107
Reposted by Dean MaddenNoah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 22/06/2026if I could convince people of one thing I sometimes think it would be that bigotry is a real thing and motivates people powerfully. it's not just a distraction or a way to manipulate people or a cover for economics. people actually hate and will do stuff based on that. 1 11874167
Reposted by Dean MaddenJarrod Watt @jaywatt.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Today’s #cartoon a flashback courtesy Will Dyson in the year 1919. As the old men congratulate themselves on a peace treaty in Versailles… “Curious, I seem to hear a child weeping.” (Note the date above the child.) 0165
Reposted by Dean MaddenFiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Pauline’s Vision- my #Auspol cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comWhat message is Pauline Hanson sending to multicultural Australia? | Fiona KatauskasThey’re hearing it loud and clear 43713
Reposted by Dean MaddenTimothy Gassin @timothygassin.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Seven years after the atrocity in Christchurch, none of those in politics and the media who have spent years demonising Muslims have faced meaningful consequences. Now, the greatest promoter of anti-Muslim sentiment leads the opinion polls & her racist rhetoric is largely unchallenged by the media. 24626
Reposted by Dean MaddenElissa @elissablack.com · 17/06/2026Trans Backrooms, but oops-all-elevators. (Video doing the rounds on Chinese social media. Allegedly in Beijing.) 042
Reposted by Dean MaddenBelinda Barnet @manjusrii.bsky.social · 17/06/2026The debate about what Pauline Hanson means by “monoculture” is disingenuous. We all know what she means because she told us in her maiden speech to parliament in 1996. 1169
Reposted by Dean MaddenThe Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Where have we seen this before? My @smh cartoon. 26573229
Reposted by Dean MaddenKaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 17/06/2026These are decisions & necessities that these extremist politicians don't bother to understand. 'Late' abortions are rare & never a careless choice. Making birth compulsory for girls & women is mad fascism, & it's bad for kids. Not your body: not your decision. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...abc.net.auBill restricting late-term abortions passes SA upper houseSouth Australia's upper house has passed a bill to restrict access to abortions past 25 weeks. The legislation passed 10 votes to 9 with the support of three newly-elected One Nation MPs. 49427
Reposted by Dean MaddenDr Tracy Westerman AM @drtracywesterman.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Because of YOU my paper on Attachment Theory & Aboriginal ppl hit the top 2% of research globally & the editors responded by making it FREE access.I’m posting it here first! This only happens for the most consequential papers.No paywall. Read now & share widely www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comArguing the need for Aboriginal-specific testing of attachment theory as a foundation of culturally informed child protection and attachment best practiceTo argue the need for Aboriginal-specific testing of attachment theory as a foundation for culturally informed child protection practice.Narrative review of attachment theory, cross-cultural attach... 715753
Reposted by Dean MaddenAmy @lolennui.bsky.social · 16/06/2026update on the guy who ate gatorade casserole 212150182
Reposted by Dean MaddenJarrod Watt @jaywatt.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Turns out it wasn’t about freedom for Iranian people, or a nuclear-free Middle East. All hail the robber barons of the US oil industry and their pirate king. 121
Reposted by Dean Maddensick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 07/06/2026new William Gibson book opening line dropped 485371941
Reposted by Dean MaddenAmy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Disabled Australians and their families are being screwed over by bullshit numbers thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...thepoint.com.auAre we being misled about NDIS fraud? Yes, we are.Current changes to the NDIS will remove at least 241,000 people from the scheme by the end of the decade. Why is Australia accepting this ‘broken promise’ to people with disability? Because the public... 22248117
